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Listening to a conference on native authors, one gent mentioned the impact of renaming a place. It may have had one named for hundreds of years that was used by thousands, but a new arrival calls it "Lassen Peak", and that's it. It's changed.
Love this Dine published map for their homeland in the Southwest where they identify and reclaim the lands identity.
American History Begins With Native History | Metal Sign https://zazzle.com/native_history_metal_sign-256559484583559591 via @zazzle
#USA #America #signs #FirstNations #History #zazzlemade #American #NativeAmerican
I expect this page on the #NativeAmerican occupation of #Alcatraz will be the next thing to disappear from the #NationalParkService website. (Fortunately, it's backed up in the @internetarchive 's Wayback Machine)
https://www.nps.gov/alca/learn/historyculture/we-hold-the-rock.htm
From 1841, a fine example of the rapidly changing West and its sprawling territories. Shows the intended permanent Indian lands of the central plains, which wouldn't last a decade
Also a funny data visualization cheat. If you have a large "Unexplored Region" mask your ignorance by adding a distance chart.
#Biden’s 2021 declaration came amid heightened public debate about the erasure of #IndigenousPeople in celebrations of Christopher Columbus, whose landing in North America led to centuries of #exploitation & #slaughter of #NativeAmerican populations.
#ColumbusDay has long been criticized by those who condemn the explorer for paving the way for European #colonialism, which brought catastrophic diseases & led to the decimation of Indigenous populations in America.
#MarketingMonday
“The story is fascinating, incorporating lore from a background I am not familiar with.”
https://www.tiffanyetaylor.com/the-manor
#darkurbanfantasy #shapeshifters #witches #savingtheworld #nativeamerican #interracialrelationship #butchfemme #lesfic #bookstodon #queerbookstodon #lesbian #lgbtq #lgbtqia
@lgbtqbookstodon @bookstodon @sapphicbooks
The real #History of concentration camps
It is true, the first #German #ConcentrationCamp was the one in #Dachau, a suburb of #Munich, in 1933.
The #Americans, however, not only had the first concentration camps, but also, they invented the concept to eliminate #NativeAmerican tribes, probably in 1863, with #BosqueRedondo, NM.
#Hitler even studied that particular concept, as well as the #Boers' in SA, at the beginning of the 20th century:
Lakota lullaby by Shai-lee Shmueli, Daniela Dvash, Michal bat Adama, Linor tsabar
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eezr4-NtbwE
Gathering of Nations starts tomorrow, runs through Saturday. It is a spectacular event, with the Grand Entry, dance/drum competition, the horse & rider parade, vendors, music/performers on an outside stage, etc. https://youtu.be/Lt50A_5f020?si=ff914G8R3J3Rcf5L
I am a history teacher from Switzerland trying to find (text) books about American Native history suitable for teenagers. I am not the right person to put together all the different pieces of history I find online. This there anything, Native people would recommend?
(Please repost for wider spread)
#NativeAmerican #TurtleIsland #FirstNation
#handsoff2025 Protest today!!!!! Join up with others to say #HandsOff our democracy and fight for your freedom!!!! Find Your LOCAL PROTEST HERE; https://www.mobilize.us/handsoff/
Today in Labor History April 18, 1977: Native American activist Leonard Peltier was found guilty of murdering two FBI agents on the Pine Ridge Reservation. However, he was actually framed by undercover FBI agents who were conducting counterintelligence on the reservation. During the trial, some of the government’s own witnesses testified that Peltier wasn’t even present at the scene of the killings. In 2017, President Obama denied Peltier's application for clemency. He was still in prison in 2025 and his health has deteriored. On June 7, 2022, The UN Human Rights Council's Working Group on Arbitrary Detention found that Peltier’s imprisonment violates the UN’s Universal Declaration of Human Rights. President Biden, as one of his final acts as president, commuted his sentence to indefinite house arrest. In February 2025, he was released and transferred to the Turtle Mountain Indian Reservation in Belcourt, North Dakota.
Breaking News! (via @bsnorrell.blogspot.com )
Feds Charge Ahead with Plan to Destroy #OakFlat
#SupremeCourt poised to consider #ApacheStronghold’s appeal
By Becket Law, Censored News, April 17, 2025
WASHINGTON – "The U.S. government today announced that it is forging ahead with plans to transfer a #NativeAmerican #SacredSite to a multinational mining giant in as few as 60 days, despite a
federal lawsuit challenging the action as illegal.
"In Apache Stronghold v. United States, Apache Stronghold—a coalition of #Apaches, other Native peoples, and non-Native allies—sued to stop the federal government from transferring Oak Flat to
Resolution Copper, a Chinese-owned mining company that plans to turn the site into a massive mining crater, ending Apache religious practices forever.
"The government has announced it will now forge ahead with the transfer even though the case is currently under consideration by the U.S. Supreme Court.
"Since time immemorial, #WesternApaches and other Native peoples have gathered at Oak Flat, outside of present-day #SuperiorAZ, for sacred religious ceremonies that cannot take place anywhere else. Known in Apache as Chi’chil Biłdagoteel, Oak Flat is listed in the #NationalRegisterOfHistoricPlaces and has been protected from #mining and other harmful practices for decades.
These protections were targeted in December 2014 when a last-minute provision was slipped into a must-pass defense bill [#NDAA] authorizing the transfer of Oak Flat to the Resolution Copper company.
"#ResolutionCopper now plans to turn the sacred site into a two-mile-wide and 1,100-foot-deep crater.
"The majority owner of Resolution Copper, Rio Tinto, sparked international outrage when it deliberately destroyed 46,000-year-old Indigenous rock shelters at one of Australia’s most significant cultural sites.
" 'The feds are barreling ahead to give Oak Flat to Resolution Copper, even as the Supreme Court considers whether to hear the case,' said Luke Goodrich, vice president and senior counsel at Becket. 'This makes the stakes crystal clear: if the Court doesn’t act now, Oak Flat could be transferred and destroyed before justice can be served.' "
Read more:
https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2025/04/feds-charge-ahead-with-plan-to-destroy.html
#SaveOakFlat #ChichilBiłdagoteel #CorporateColonialism #ProtectOakFlat #ReaderSupportedNews #SCOTUS #DefendTheSacred #CopperMine
#WaterIsLife #ResolutionCopper #RioTinto #RecycleCopper #CulturalGenocide #NoMiningWithoutConsent #RecycleCopper #TontoNationalForest
Gallup has an amazing selection of Native American art, with much lower prices than other places in New Mexico.
Oakland-based Chef Crystal Wahpepah Representing!
#Culture #Politics #Economics #NativeAmerican #InterTribal #IndigenousFood #CulinaryArt
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vd3qTHPVUdg
Excerpt: Over the past two decades, the Native American Languages collection at the Sam Noble Museum in Norman has grown to about 9,000 items, from board games in Kaw and bingo in Navajo to hymns in Muscogee (Creek) and books for early readers in Yavapai.
"It ranges from the very serious or scholarly, like dictionaries and field recordings, to things like we've got a collection of 'Hi and Lois' cartoons in Cherokee," said Raina Heaton, associate curator of the Native American Languages Collection at the University of Oklahoma's natural history museum.
"While we focus on the Indigenous languages of Oklahoma, being in Oklahoma, we've got stuff in 1,300 languages from all over the planet. ... The collection is 100% built by donations, so people have entrusted us with this stuff."
Since she started at the Sam Noble Museum in 2017, Heaton has been on a mission to expand access to the vast collection. She marked a major milestone in 2022, when she received a $345,494 National Endowment for the Humanities grant for a three-year project to provide online access to the collection for the first time.
At the time, hers was the largest total NEH grant received by an individual investigator at OU and the second-largest collaborative NEH grant ever awarded to OU.
"We complied with all the regulations, all the check-ins, the reports. All of it was good," said Heaton, who is also a presidential associate professor in Native American studies at OU.
Like many other researchers at OU and nationwide, Heaton had her project thrown into turmoil last week by the sudden termination of her NEH grant at the direction of the federal Department of Government Efficiency, also known as DOGE.
Robert E Lee strolled into Appomattox Courthouse on April 9, looked around, and then stared at Ely
He said "I am glad to see one real American here"
(probably as a dunk on everyone else in the room rather than a compliment to Ely)
Ely shook his hand and said "We are all Americans"
(as in: *now* you are, traitor Bob 
)
there's something deep about the fact the Confederate Surrender Terms reuniting the #USA were authored by, in the handwriting of, a #NativeAmerican
